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From Marx to Piketty, a sprawling but marvellously lucid overview of capitalism's naysayers ...

Alternate political realities are compellingly explored in this sinister vision of a children's home - but the echoes of Ishiguro are just too strong ...

Translator Deepa Bhasthi's pick of 12 of Mushtaq's 'life-affirming' tales about women's lives in southern India becomes the first short story collection to win the £50,000 award ...

When the writer's partner overstayed his US visa, the couple were forced to live 'underground'. He talks about their fear of deportation - and the secret to a happy open relationship ...

The funeral of an English aristocrat sets the scene for a battle over inheritance, in an ambitious tale of empire and historical privilege ...

A team of writers complete the vital book that Guardian reporter Dom Phillips was working on at the time of his murder ...

Ahead of the author's much anticipated memoir, we count down the best of her books - from climate dystopias to her world-conquering handmaids ...

These epigrammatic verses compress the great essayist's philosophy with a beauty that echoes Keats and might have pleased Wordsworth ...

Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?

The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future China ...